01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sigismund de Ivanowski's Window Shoppers, with Footnotes #201

Sigismund Ivanowski

Window Shoppers

Oil on canvas

19  1/2  x 31  1/2  inches

Private collection

Sold for 10,625 USD in June 2017

The subject matter of the present work celebrates some of the important cultural themes of the Gilded Age: the growth of a consumerist culture and the advent of department stores (Macy's moved into its current, Beaux-Arts style building on the corner of 34th street in Manhattan in 1902), as well as ready-to-wear fashions such as the woman’s shirtwaist dress, and indeed the general joie de vivre that went with rapid industrialization and the associated enhanced quality of life.

Sigismund Ivanowski was a Ukrainian-born painter and illustrator who emigrated to America in 1902. A prize-winning student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he also studied in London under James Abbott McNeil Whistler before coming to the U.S., where he became a member of the Society of Illustrators. President Theodore Roosevelt had his portrait painted by Ivanowksi, and from 1906 to 1914 he painted a series of actresses in character for "Century" magazine. More on Sigismund Ivanowski 

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